Growing up, I watched shows such as 'Blackadder' and 'Monty Python' with my parents.

It's so infectious to watch people having fun.

When you're surrounded by brilliant people it really is just easy to do your job.

I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

There's a reason people love watching blooper reels of actors falling about laughing.

When I watch comedy I love to see that pleasure in the performer's eye and that sense of cheek - and even those moments when you can see someone is trying not to laugh.

I always performed as a kid to make my family laugh and was more concerned with making kids at school laugh than I was about the lessons.

I think we all have a similar philosophy about comedy and comic performance which is that it's at its best when you can see the pleasure the performer has, when you can see a glimmer in the eye.

Fresh is better. But you've never drunk fresh blood. Have you?"Simon raised his eyebrow in response."Well, aside from mine of course, " Jace said. "And I'm pretty sure my blood is fan-tastic.

Feeling awful is physiological you say.God I hate you, I say. Yes you can find the neurons for feeling awful. Do you think you can find the neurons for the fact I hate you?

What would I have done without books?

A thick, intense fog was rolling in from the ocean, which created long, strange shadows to form like creatures of their own kind.

When it comes to memories, the good and the bad never balance.

It was the waiting and watching that cost the most. For during that time he had to endure.

Not a fan of spiders. I saw the movie 'Arachnophobia' which was single-handedly rated in the top three worst choices of my life.

I have to do things for myself, and if those standards are set high, then it's up to me to pass or fail.

I was going for the idea that a time can also be a location. You can revisit a time of year, in the same way you can go back to a house that you used to live in.

I keep very weird hours. I never know when I'm going to get an idea.